Membership

末日聖徒イエス・キリスト教会の信者のただのもう一人で、個人的に意見を風に当てつつです。
I am just another member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints airing my personal opinions.
This "hands-on" is in the form of what we call a personal testimony.
この「ハンズオン」は、個人の証という形に作って行きます。

My personal ideas and interpretations.
個人の発想と解釈です。

I hope it's useful. If not, I hope you'll forgive me for wasting your time.
お役立つ物ならば、うれしく存じます。そうでなければ、あなたの時間を無駄に費やしてもらってしまって、申し訳ございません。

Above all, don't take my word for the things I write. Look the scriptures up yourself. Your opinion of them is far more important to you than mine.
何よりもここに書いているものそのままだと思わないでください。参考の聖句を是非調べて読んでください。私の意見よりはあなたに対して価値があるのはあなたの意見です。

Sunday, October 30, 2022

Sharing

One of the young adult members talked during the meetings today about sharing the Gospel in a way that has me examining myself. 

It's harder to share the things you believe in if you don't want the person you're sharing them with to find greater happiness in what you share.

Unpacking that a bit: 

To have the love of Christ in you is to want other people to be happy. 

To feel the love of Christ towards you is to believe you can and should be happy, and to want that happiness yourself.

If what you believe it isn't making you happy, why should you want to share it?

Or, rather, if you aren't sharing it with them out of the love of Christ in you for them -- out of the desire for them to find greater happiness in what you share -- it's going to be that much harder to share.

This may have something to do with why people seem to be a little stand-offish when I tell them about what I know is true. I really need to think about my attitude towards life, God, and other people.

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